Presumably they get exactly the same amount of sunlight 100% of the time instead of a few hours peak on earth? I'd say 8x is in the right order of magnitude.

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Andrex 7 hours ago | parent [-]

My layman expectation would have been much higher. It's got no atmosphere refracting anything and it's closer to the source of energy.

	▲	echoangle 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The distance from earth to the sun is 150 million kilometers and your orbit is probably only a few hundred kilometers up (and realistically it’s sun-synchronous and perpendicular to the earth-sun axis), so the distance change doesn’t really matter.
	▲	exe34 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		LEO isn't much closer to the sun, and the atmosphere probably doesn't absorb a huge amount at the wavelengths they work.